Random News and Notes 9 October

On this date:

• 28 BC – The Temple of Apollo is dedicated on the Palatine Hill in Rome.
• 786 – Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are crowned co-Kings of the Franks.
• 1446 – The Korean Hangul alphabet is first published by King Sejong the Great.*
• 1470 – Henry VI of England restored to the throne.
• 1635 – Religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony by the General Court of Massachusetts. After leaving Massachusetts, Williams, with the assistance of the Narragansett tribe, established a settlement at the junction of two rivers near Narragansett Bay, located in present-day Rhode Island.
• 1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut is chartered, which later becomes Yale University.
• 1760 – Austrian and Russian troops enter Berlin and begin burning structures and looting.
• 1779 – The Luddite riots being in Manchester, England in reaction to machinery for spinning cotton. The movement took its name from Ned Ludd (or “General Ludd”), a legendary, likely mythical apprentice said to have broken a frame in the late 18th century.
• 1825 – The first Norwegian immigrants to America arrive on the sloop Restaurationen.

• 1888 – The Washington Monument, designed by Robert Mills, opens to the public.
• 1914 – Germans take Antwerp, Belgium, after 12-day siege.
• 1934 – In Marseilles, a Macedonian revolutionary associated with Croat terrorists in Hungary assassinates King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. The two had been on a tour of European capitals in quest of an alliance against Nazi Germany. The assassinations bring the threat of war between Yugoslavia and Hungary, but confrontation is prevented by the League of Nations.
• 1936 – Hoover dam begins producing electricity.
• 1941 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt requests congressional approval for arming U.S. merchant ships.
• 1950 – U.N. forces, led by the First Cavalry Division, cross the 38th parallel in South Korea and begin attacking northward towards the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
• 1963 – A landslide in Italy leads to the deaths of more than 2,000 people when it causes a sudden and massive wave of water to overwhelm a dam.
• 1967 – Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna becomes a good communist. Che is executed by Bolivian Army MSGT Mario Teran after his capture the previous day.
• 1983 – The president of South Korea, Doo Hwan Chun, with his cabinet and other top officials are scheduled to lay a wreath on a monument in Rangoon, Burma, when a bomb explodes. Hwan had not yet arrived so escaped injury, but 17 Koreans–including the deputy prime minister and two other cabinet members–and two Burmese are killed. North Korea is blamed.
• 1999 – Last flight of the Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird” stealth reconnaissance aircraft.
• 2006 – North Korea reportedly tests its first nuclear device.

I expect y’all remember the story about HeeHaw the donkey. Well, the unredacted/unedited body cam footage of the shooting has been released and oh boy. I said at the time if the cops that did the shooting was so scared of a mini donkey that he had to shoot it he needed to find another line of work. It’s worse than that. Fair warning, the footage is a little hard to watch.

I can’t write what I want to here. Dude needs to lose his job and his ability to own a gun.

Amy Jones faces six felony charges after posing as a substitute at Rufus King International High School in Milwaukee. Jones blended in with arriving students at Rufus King International High School on Sept. 24, bypassed security, and got assigned to a classroom without credential checks amid a substitute shortage. She divided students by race and gender, called a boy ‘fat boy,’ asked a girl if she wanted to be a ‘stripper or hooker,’ and made comments about incest, school shootings, and students’ sex lives.

The school district admitted a failure in verifying her credentials amid eight absent teachers that day. Jones told police she did it because she was bored and hates kids. She has been charged with felony impersonation and exposing children to harmful descriptions and is facing up to 21 years in prison. Jones, who has bipolar disorder and was off her medication, was released on a $5,000 bond with orders to avoid the school.

It is looking like the Canadian economy is in freefall. Statistics Canada reported a decline of 68,300 jobs in September, far below expectations of a 9,200 gain, marking the second consecutive monthly drop after 41,700 losses in August. The unemployment rate increased to 6.5% from 6.4%, with significant losses in public sector employment (70,000), youth aged 15-24 (48,000), educational services (35,300), healthcare and social services (23,100), and manufacturing (12,700).

Full-time employment fell by 35,400 and part-time by 32,900, while the employment rate dropped to 60.6% and labor force participation to 64.8%. Carney and his Liberal cohort want to import another 300,000 foreigners a year going forward as well. Good luck.

From the OMFG that is funny department. A man with an odd name was elected as mayor of Queropalca in Peru’s Huánuco region. Hitler Mussolini Simeón Flores, a 45-year-old local businessman,  won the district mayoral race with 229 votes (34.54%) for the center-left Ahora Nación party in the October 2026 municipal elections.

The election in the small Andean district of roughly 730 residents was extremely close, with only 663 valid votes cast and the top three candidates separated by just 42 votes total.

It looks like hurricane Isaias has sped up some as it strengthens. Current forecasting says the eye of the storm will come ashore in the Florida panhandle this evening as a strong category 2/weak 3. Warnings are up from Louisiana to Pensacola bay. Hurricane force winds are expected as far inland as 100 miles from the coast.

If you are in the path of this storm, take cover and follow all instructions from local emergency officials.

You can find more information about Isaias at nhc.noaa.gov